6. Statistics

These statistics are for the UK i.e. England, Wales, Scotland, and N. Ireland. Sometimes data is only available for Great Britain. Where this happens then percentages are used direct and absolute numbers are extrapolated to the UK population. Dependant children i.e. less than 16 or less than 18 and in full time education are indicated by (<16).

UK Families with dependant children Numbers (estimated) and percentages 1994

No. families with children (<16) 7.64M 10
Married couple families with children (<16) 5.5M (72.5% of fam+child<16) 2,10 Cohabiting couple families with children (<16) 520K (6.9% of fam+child<16) 2,10 Lone mother families with children (<16) 1.5M (19.5% of fam+child<16) 2,10 Lone father families with children (<16) 100K (1.1% of fam+child<16) 2,10

Source: [2] [10] Note: absolute numbers are derived from 1991 GB data and so are estimated

UK Family types (with head <60) 1994 - Numbers and %

No. married men (<60) 9.47M
Married men with no children 2.8M (21.3%)
Married men with children (<16) 5.5M (42.4%)
Married men with non dependent children 1.2M (11.2%)
Cohabiting couples with no children 770K (5.7%)
Cohabiting couples with children (<16) 520K (3.5%)
Cohabiting couples with non dependent children 26K (0.4%)
Lone mother-headed households with children (<16) 1.5M (13.6%)
Lone father-headed households with children (<16) 100K (1%)
Lone parent families with non dependent children 386K (3%)

Earnings

Taxation 1994

Total revenue 87.2Bï¿½
Customs and excise 72.4Bï¿½
No. total taxpayers 25.3M
No. single taxpayers 10.3M
No. married men taxpayers 9.0M
No. married women taxpayers 5.9M
Total Revenue paid by all men 77.4Bï¿½ 369*52*0.33*14.15
Total number of men paying revenue 14.15M
Total Revenue paid by all women 39.1Bï¿½
Total number of women paying revenue 11.05M
Total Revenue paid by married men xx
Total number of married men paying revenue xx
Total Revenue paid by married women xx
Total number of married women paying revenue xx

Highest educational qualification of head of household

Fatherless families

Percentage of children in fatherless families US 22% UK 20.7% (2.5M / 12.074M)

Reports from the US show the effect that absence of a father has on nearly 22% of American children in a fatherless home is:

63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (Source: US DHHS Bureau of the census)90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes85% of all children that exibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Centre for Disease Control)80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behaviour, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978)71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes (Source: National Principles Association Report on the State of High Schools.)70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: US Dept of Justice Special Report, Sept 1988)85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992)

These statistics translate to mean that children from a fatherless home are:

5 times more likely to commit suicide

32 times more likely to run away

20 times more likely to have behavioural disorders

14 times more likely to commit rape (boys)

9 times more likely to drop out of high school

10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances

9 times more likely to end up in a state-operated institution

20 times more likely to end up in prison

Divorced people are:

Occurring to a married man during marriage Probability % Occurrences to currently
married men

Be divorced 53% 7355K Be divorced by wife using fabricated grounds 24% 3338K Lose custody of his children 24% 3417K Lose custody and never see children again 8% 1069K Lose his home 39% 5515K Lose a significant proportion of life savings 49% 6923K

Occurring to a man during divorce Probability % Occurrences to married men/year

Have no effective defence to a wife's petition 61% 110K Not receive legal aid 64% 115K Have false allegations made against him 58% 105K Be the victim of malpractice's in his legal case 87% 156K

Occurring to a married man after divorce Probability Occurrences to divorced men per year

Suffer obstruction to contact with his children 61% 110K Suffer stress 83% 149K Will not remarry 77% 138K Have attitudes to women in general 63% 114K Have attitudes to the law 90% 163K

Maintenance after divorce ï¿½ per case Total over % of Total per year per year 10 years cases for 10 years Maintenance for children 3216 32160 47.6 2752M Maintenance for ex-wives 5292 52920 13.4 1276M

Only 53.5% of men in divorces involving children make child maintenance. Therefore the total amount of money transferred from a man to a women over 10 years is 9913+18804+53.5%*32160= ï¿½29306 per case over 10 years